3 ms·

So one assumes you're super cool if wherever it is you live or come from is the place that becomes uninhabitable, then. If it's your family that has to abandon

So one assumes you're super cool if wherever it is you live or come from is the place that becomes uninhabitable, then. If it's your family that has to abandon their home and become refugees. That's just the way things work. Or do you have enough money that this isn't a problem you're terribly worried about? Can you just up stakes and move to another place and obtain residency and live off of savings or remote work until you can legally work in your new habitable home, confident that all of this is very normal and easy to adjust to? Sometimes, reading the comments on this site, I wonder how the tech industry has a reputation for attracting the brightest people on earth.

colechristensen 5y ago
More or less everybody had ancestors that uprooted and moved to vastly different locations in search of better opportunities, most Americans are the descendants or were themselves rather poor immigrants. The tech scene is especially full of people who are first or second generation. The world changes and it baffles me that some people have this huge sense of entitlement to constancy. Whether you're very poor or very rich you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck, but it usually means making choices that people don't like. Being prepared for an uncertain future is virtuous and there isn't a level of wealth that demarks whether or not this is possible. If you're living today, maybe buying real estate near sea level is a particularly bad idea, maybe buying real estate in areas threatened by severe drought and wildfires is a bad idea, maybe if you're in these situations already it's worth doing so while there's not a rush. People on this site tend to be problem-solvers. If your location is to become uninhabitable it isn't going to happen overnight. Whatever happens in your life, there are probably going to be some big bad things for everybody. Do your best with what you have, spend less time fantasizing about changing the inevitable or judging people who assume future problems have solutions that aren't just trying to make change not happen.

colechristensen 5y ago

More or less everybody had ancestors that uprooted and moved to vastly different locations in search of better opportunities, most Americans are the descendants or were themselves rather poor immigrants. The tech scene is especially full of people who are first or second generation. The world changes and it baffles me that some people have this huge sense of entitlement to constancy. Whether you're very poor or very rich you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck, but it usually means making choices that people don't like. Being prepared for an uncertain future is virtuous and there isn't a level of wealth that demarks whether or not this is possible. If you're living today, maybe buying real estate near sea level is a particularly bad idea, maybe buying real estate in areas threatened by severe drought and wildfires is a bad idea, maybe if you're in these situations already it's worth doing so while there's not a rush. People on this site tend to be problem-solvers. If your location is to become uninhabitable it isn't going to happen overnight. Whatever happens in your life, there are probably going to be some big bad things for everybody. Do your best with what you have, spend less time fantasizing about changing the inevitable or judging people who assume future problems have solutions that aren't just trying to make change not happen.